eSAF-Aal: Udvikling af bæredygtigt flybrændstof baseret på eMetanol

Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) are a necessity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from aviation. Today, the production of SAF is very limited compared with the global consumption, and at the same time, ambitious mandates for their use are discussed at national as well as EU level. In Denmark there is an ambition to operate the first green domestic flights already by 2025 and by 2030 all domestic flights must use SAF. This creates an urgency for rapid deployment of SAF production capacity.
The objective of eSAF-AAL is to develop and demonstrate a novel technology that converts raw e-methanol, before distillation, to eSAF in a single step using a groundbreaking catalyst from Vertimass, US. This technology will have clear advantages in its ability to operate flexible based on electricity from renewable sources, and in its simplicity, that altogether is expected to make it cost competitive. The eSAF-AAL target is to produce the first eSAF at pre-commercial scale in Aalborg and prepare the technical basis to build a full-scale plant with a production capacity of 10.000 tons/year that will contribute to supply the first domestic routes in Denmark.